"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Faith does not set aside natural duties, but perfects and strengthens them.” — Johann Albrecht Bengel

“Sweet is war to those who know it not.”

~Pindar

"Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound, the less it is blind."

~G.K. Chesterton

"Hate what the world seeks, and seek what it avoids."

+St. Ignatius of Loyola

"Christianity does not hold the resurrection to be one among many tenets of belief. Without faith in the resurrection there would be no Christianity at all. The Christian church would never have begun; the Jesus movement would have fizzled out like a damp squib with His execution. Christianity stands or falls with the truth of the resurrection.

Once disprove it, and you have disposed off Christianity. Christianity is a historical religion. It claims that God has taken the risk of involving Himself in human history, and the facts are there for you to examine with the utmost rigour. They will stand any amount of critical investigation."

~Michael Green, Man Alive, p. 61.

If Christ himself on the cross, right before his death said "Father, why have you forsaken me?", then what could the apostles have felt or thought after his death?

Christianity is not just a religion, it's God's continual revelation.

“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”

~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."

~Ovid

“The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.”

― Venerable Fulton J. Sheen,

"Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence."

~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

~John Locke

"Just as the Lord is solicitous about our salvation, so too, the murder of men, the devil, strives to lead a man into despair.

A lofty and sound soul does not despair over misfortunes, of whatever sort they may be. Our life is as it were a house of temptations and trials; but we will not renounce the Lord for as long as He allows the tempter to remain with us and for as long as we must wait to be revived through patience and secure dispassion!

Judas the betrayer was fainthearted and unskilled in battle, and so the enemy, seeing his despair, attacked him and forced him to hang himself, but Peter, a firm rock, when he fell into great sin, like one skilled in battle did not despair nor lose heart, but shed bitter tears from a burning heart, and the enemy, seeing these tears, his eyes scorched as by fire, fled far form him wailing in pain."

+St. Seraphim of Sarov

“An honest man falls in love with an honest woman; he wishes, therefore to marry her, to be the father of her children, to secure her and himself. All systems of government should be tested by whether he can do this. If any system—feudal, servile, or barbaric—does, in fact, give him so large a cabbagefield that he can do it, there is the essence of liberty and justice. If any system—Republican, mercantile, or Eugenist—does, in fact, give him so small a salary that he can't do it, there is the essence of eternal tyranny and shame.”

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man does for himself and by himself."

~G.K. Chesterton